Stuck automating login to reuters.com and getting a page

2011-01-16 Thread Carl Wells
Hi, I hope you don't mind my newbie question. I'm new to web-programming (and indeed am somewhat rusty with programming in general). I'm out of work and trying to teach myself C++, PERL, SQL and other skills and in order to do this I've set myself a project. As part of this project I need

Re: Stuck automating login to reuters.com and getting a page

2011-01-16 Thread Mike Williams
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Carl Wells cgrwe...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi, I hope you don't mind my newbie question. I'm new to web-programming (and indeed am somewhat rusty with programming in general). I'm out of work and trying to teach myself C++, PERL, SQL and other skills and in

Re: Stuck automating login to reuters.com and getting a page

2011-01-16 Thread Carl Wells
Thanks Mike.  I thought that might be the case so looks like learning some javascript is in order!  I want to get that data direct from source. Yes, it crossed my mind that sticking with PERL might be easier, I've lost almost 2 months already (I was ill for 3 weeks with flu) and am quite

Re: Stuck automating login to reuters.com and getting a page

2011-01-16 Thread Greg
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 04:48 -0800, Carl Wells wrote: Hi, I hope you don't mind my newbie question. I'm new to web-programming (and indeed am somewhat rusty with programming in general). I'm out of work and trying to teach myself C++, PERL, SQL and other skills and in order to do this